Analyses the characteristics of qualifications and evaluates their impact on the functioning of the labour market.

This paper investigates the efficiency of domestic and foreign banks in the Central American region during 2002-07. Using two main empirical approaches, Data Envelopment Analysis and Stochastic Frontier Analysis, the paper finds that foreign banks are not necessarily more efficient than their...

Using firm-level data for Estonia for the years 1997-2005, we analyze the impact of international competition on firm dynamics, considering both firm closedown and product switching. We contribute to the literature in two important ways: (1) this is the first paper to study the determinants of...

This paper presents a simple framework that illustrates the link between skill-based wage differentiation and human capital acquisition given skill-biased technical progress. The analysis points to the economic costs resulting from labor market and income redistribution policies that prevent the...

ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper on a case study of the impact of industrialization policy and trade policy on employment in Cameroon - discusses labour market conditions, unemployment, wage structure and employment policy; examines labour relations; explains the failure of state intervention....

ILO pub. Working paper on the legal status of migrant workers and regularization of irregular migrants in Venezuela - describes the General Register of foreigners, commenting on international agreements and subsequent modification of legislation; outlines data resulting from the General Register...

ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper on the effects of petroleum exports and agrarian reform on rural area labour markets in the 1970s in Ecuador - discusses agrarian structure, land tenure, absorption of family labour in family farms and agricultural employment across farm size categories, rural...

Labor markets around the world have become increasingly integrated over the last two decades, with the entry of China, India and the former Eastern bloc into the world trading system, the removal of restrictions on trade and capital flows, and rapid technological progress. At the same time, the...

ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper on a case study of the impact of international migration movements on the labour market in Egypt and Sudan - includes general information on economic conditions, human capital, population, employment and labour demand, examines the effects of emigration and...